Joan Marchbank Memorial Concert Sunday

In Memoriam Joan Marchbank

Concerts given in aid of the peddar's Way Ward, the recently-opened End-of-Life Suite at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn.

Schubert. Trout Quintet and String Quintet in C major.

Allan Schiller (piano)

After a debut at the age of 10 with the Halle Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli, and a performance at the Edinburgh Festival a year later, Allan became the first British student to gain a scholarship to the Moscow Conservatoire. His career includes concerto appearances with all the major British orchestras and hundreds of BBC broadcasts as recitalist and chamber musician, as well as numerous recordings. He has recently published his memoir of a life on the concert platform ‘Music Made Me’ and was awarded the B.E.M. for his services to music and charity.

Raphael Wallfisch (cello)

Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most celebrated cellists performing on the international stage. He was born in London into a family of musicians, his mother the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and his father the pianist Peter Wallfisch. He was inspired to take up the cello at an early age and, after a succession of fine teachers, he finished his studies with the great Russian cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky in California. At the age of 24, he won the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Florence, and has since enjoyed a world-wide career. He has recorded many of the concertos written for the cello, especially those by British composers.

Bridge String Quartet

Formed some thirty years ago, the Bridge String Quartet is named after the English composer, Frank Bridge, whose string quartets were the first music they recorded. Since then, they have recorded many CDs of music that is not widely played by British composers such as Sir Hubert Parry, Eugene Goossens, Ivor Gurney and Herbert Howells. Most recently, they have made two CDs of all the music for string quartet by Arnold Cooke for the Toccata Classics label. the Quartet has travelled widely to festivals in America, France, Spain and Italy and has broadcast English music live on the BBC and various continental radio stations. They are also experienced  mentors of non-professional string quartets holding two courses a year where enthusiastic amateurs can improve their technique and their ensemble playing.

Marianne Schofield (double bass)

Marianne is an alumna of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, where she studied  Music. She completed a postgraduate degree in double bass performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London,  graduating with distinction and the Eugene Cruft Prize for double bass. She is a dedicated chamber musician and has performed with the Haffner Wind Ensemble, the Solem Quartet, the Navarra Quartet, United Strings of Europe, Chroma, and Manchester Collective. She also performs regularly with many of the major British orchestras.